Things you never see nowadays

David's in sorrento!

We went to buy an ice cream in Venice but the seller had a really drippy nose so we didn't fancy it. I could still heave thinking about it 30 years on.

absent do you mean that pistachios were invented that long ago - crumbs

I believe the best ice cream in the world is supposed to be Vivoli in Florence. Sadly I wasn't there long enough to find out but Nico's in Venice is pretty damn good

absent I agree Roman icecream is fantastic, but a very close second was the icecream we had at the original Ben and Jerry's in Manchester, Vermont. The development kitchens were dishing out freshly made caramel and pecan nut icecream for us to try and it was divine. Never tasted anything like it since.

The green stripe of Neapolitan ice cream was almond or pistachio.

whenim64 You have to go to Rome for the nicest ice cream in the world. Absentdaughter, then seven, and I disagreed about the exact flavour – there was a choice of 140 – but we did agree about the quality of the flavour and the texture.

Ana I remember having red, white and green Neapolitan icecream in wafers as a child, from Ramo's Italian icecream parlour on Blackpool prom. My dad told us it was the nicest icecream in the world!

I thought it was apple Ana but neapolitan ice cream was such a treat they could have told me it was grass and I wouldn't have cared.

No, I wouldn't have known either, must have been told! I do know it wasn't mint flavoured, though - yes, it would have been one of those two makes.

I remember it Ana I didn't know it was greengage although I'm not sure I would have known what a greengage was then. It was made by Walls I think, or possibly Lyons.

Oh yes! They were - don't they make them any more?

Does anyone else remember Neapolitan ice cream with white, pink and green stripes? I think it was greengage flavour, but no one I know seems to have come across it....

Terry`s Neapolitans, mmmmmm! They were lovely.

Oh yes a cat lick!
Mum would wet a hanky with her tongue and wipe it all over my face! I'd be squirming, saying, "gerroff" and mum would be saying "shurrup!"

Can't remember what it was called but it looked like pink sugar, some kind of sherbet I would think. To encourage kids who didn't like milk to drink it. It was a shocking pink colour. Don't think Nesquick had been invented.
Never did me any harm...lol...

Do Mums still give their children a "cats lick" when in a hurry to go somewhere?

Hmmm possibly.

Was it Nesquick that you were thinking of isthere?

trishs have only just got around to reading that article you kindly posted about historical child abuse in the BBC. Bit of a long rambling article but horrifying reading all the same.

I never much cared for Uncle Mac as a youngster. The voice on the radio I greatly loved was David Davis:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-david-davis-1345488.html

btw a famous story that I was told years ago about "Uncle Mac" is that, after the end of one broadcast, he gasped "Thank God the little b*ggers have gone!" Unfortunately the microphone was still live and his remark was broadcast.

But a paper from Monash University attributes a near identical story to George Saunders, "Uncle George" an Australian children's host, adding "there are numerous variations of the story (American as well as Australian) and it may well be apocryphal."

I guess not the George Sanders who starred in All About Eve.

Ella46 John Simpson, I think.

He has been mentioned in the press by a BBC presenter (John Humphreys? maybe, can't remember.) using a pseudonym,Uncle Dick!

trishs Some time ago on a similar nostalgia thread I mentioned that "Uncle Mac" was a paedophile. The women of my family were talking about it in hushed voices on some occasion and I didn't take a lot of notice but grasped the essentials of what they were talking about. It upset some Gransnetters when I posted this piece of information as he was such a figure in our generation's childhood. Shades of Jimmy Savile.

I don't want to hijack this very enjoyable thread (ominous words) but I have been wondering what our grand-children would include on a list if they were have a similar thread many years in the future.

What would they miss?

ipads - they were so big and clunky weren't they? And slow!
The NHS - can you believe my grandma and grandad used to go to hospital to get things fixed and there was no charge "at the point of delivery". And they had their own GP down the road! Does anyone remember GPs?
They had shops too. Not just out of town megamarkets and internet deliveries like now. So impersonal when you think about it. Shops disappeared in the 2020s didn't they? Or probably earlier, I don't remember.
The Royal Family - before they were finished off by the Great Scandals of 2018. But I understand they're quite happy on Mauritius, not that we hear much about them.
Ash trees - I've got an old photo of one somewhere.
etc

What was the name of that pink powder mrsmopp?? I can taste it now. No trace of fruit, entirely chemical!

And the sour smell of the school milk crates {yuk emoticon]
I used to get given extra milk that was left over by Miss Williams. because I have pale skin - no pink cheeks.
Taking a walk along an empty, new motorway, just before it opened (but it was 4 yrs ago in Ireland - and the motorway is still nearly empty!)
I don't remember seeing rickety old people, but there is a gransnet member who remembers having patients in the midlands when she was a young gp.
But I lived by the seaside in wales - if I had gone up the valley it may have been different. My MIL grew up in the war in the midlands and says nobody used to go out and sit in the sun.

Going to LOOK at M1 (not the M1!!). Being taken by a really sophisticated boyfriend, in his XJ6 for a meal in the upmarket restaurant overlooking the runway at East Midland Airport.